"This, this! Xianzhi, according to what you say, aren't all Westerners rich? ”

Xu Yifan asked in shock.

Shi Kefa nodded and replied, "Yes, you're so rich!" Of course, the rich are also those manor owners, capitalists, and businessmen with a net worth of more than one million taels of silver abound, of course, this is not the most important, the most important thing is that although the territory of these Western countries is not large, but the colonies they occupy are too vast, beyond our imagination! A small Portugal, the territory area is not as large as the capital, but in the entire southern part of the Americas, half of the land has become their colony, the area is half the size of the Ming Dynasty, not counting the colonies in other places; As for countries such as England and Spain, there are more colonies, with a steady stream of colonial wealth, the strength of these countries is abnormally strong, and the powerful fleets that each country has are not weaker than our Daming fleet, as for the strength of the Dutch, their fleet is even far above our Daming fleet, and their main warships are not much better than our Tian-class warships, and even huge, when I first arrived in England, England's giant battleship Sea God King had just been launched for not a long time, It was a real giant, bigger than our two Heaven-class warships, and its combat power could be imagined......"

Cha Shu nodded and replied: "We have learned about this, I have heard the emperor talk about it, and I have also seen the intelligence brought back from Nanyang by the Ministry of Intelligence......"

"That's what we know, but there's something you don't know!"

Shi Kefa said in a deep voice: "General Cha, do you know how many sea ships the little Netherlands has? The Kingdom of the Netherlands has more than 16,000 sea ships, which was told to me by King Williams of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, more than 16,000 sea ships, and most of them are large merchant ships, and one-third of the world's trade is under the control of the Dutch! The Kingdom of the Netherlands has dozens of shipyards, and can start building hundreds of sea ships at the same time, although this official has been on a mission to the West for four years, but it is also very clear that the shipbuilding capacity of our Ming Empire is far from being so strong, in a year, not to mention hundreds, to be able to build a hundred sea ships, it is already burning incense, the gap, the gap is too big......"

The corners of Cha Xuan's mouth twitched continuously, and even Zhu Jie's expression changed, in particular, he was preparing to build the third treasure shipyard in Songjiang Mansion, and he encountered huge resistance in the court, what about the Netherlands, there are already dozens of large-scale shipyards, and how big is the Netherlands? That is, the top two capitals!

"Yuan Gong, do you hear that? Do you hear that? When I was about to build the third treasure shipyard, you were still crying to me that you would use silver here, silver there, look at the Dutch! Look at the Dutch! Sixteen thousand sea ships, and dozens of shipyards, can we find 1,600 sea ships in the entire Ming Dynasty now? How many shipyards are there that we can build sea ships in the Ming Dynasty? I'm afraid that I won't be able to build even ten families, so you, you just wait to be knocked on by the Dutch! ”

Yuan Jixian is already stupid now, although he has excellent ability, but after all, he is just an official cultivated in the traditional scholar culture, adhering to the concept of food for the people, Shi Nong, industry and commerce, commerce is the secondary, agriculture is the fundamental, now take a look at it, the news brought back by Shi Kefa is too shocking......

"Lord Xianzhi, what about the warships, what is the situation of the warships of England and the Dutch now, don't just talk about the Sea God King, we also know the Sea God King, what we need to know is the specific strength of the naval fleets of Western countries now!"

Cha Shu asked urgently, now Cha Shu's forehead is already sweating, it seems that the difference in strength is really a bit big, his own Admiralty Shangshu is definitely under pressure now, once a war breaks out with Xiang, he is definitely the first to bear the brunt, he is not afraid of death, but once he loses, humiliates the country and loses the land, he will be the sinner of the Ming Dynasty!

Shi Kefa said in a deep voice: "General Cha, you know you're in a hurry, right?" I won't hide it from you, the three most powerful maritime countries in the West today are the Netherlands, England and Spain! The Dutch have more than a hundred capital battleships, and the smallest tonnage of the capital battleships can be compared to our Tian-class battleships! As for the battleships like the ground class or even smaller, there are even more, together, I am afraid that there will be nearly a thousand, and the Dutch fleet has naval guns, the exact number, more than eight thousand! As for England, now that England has just ended the civil war, it now has more than a hundred main warships, and the other warships together also have more than four hundred; As for Spain, now the strength of Spain and Portugal has begun to decline, but the overall strength is still not to be underestimated, almost the entire Western Ocean is living on the sea, since they opened up the route from the Western Ocean to the rest of the world, the navigation strength and fleet strength of these countries have been far behind our Ming Empire......"

"I'm X!"

Check the bolt and explode directly!

The main battleships alone are larger than the Heaven-class battleships, and there are already more than a hundred! What a lot of strength this has to be! You know, now after three years of development, there are constantly new types of warships launched, the two fleets of the Ming Dynasty together, the heaven-class warships are only about fifty, and the ground-class warships are a little more, that is, seventy, this is not an ordinary gap with others!

"Your Majesty, how do you play this, how do you play this? I'm the secretary of the Admiralty, I'm afraid I'll have to submit my resignation to you, so please be smart......"

Checking the bolt astringently.

"Fart!"

Zhu Jiedeng's face sank, and he shouted angrily: "Check the bolt, are you deflated?" What kind of backbone do you have? You're not a man! Now that the Dutch and the English are indeed stronger at sea than we are, so what? That is accumulated by people through a hundred years, what about us, our Ming Fleet has only been established for a total of five years! What is there to compare? As I said, five years at the least, ten years at most, neither the Dutch nor the English are our opponents! Now that it's only been three years, let's give us another two years to try? In giving us seven years to try? Our Ming Empire launches more than ten heaven-class warships and more than twenty earth-class warships every year! Seven years later, the Daming fleet will still have more than a hundred heaven-class warships and more than two hundred earth-class warships, and the strength will definitely not be worse than them. Useless stuff! ”

(End of chapter)